> Gosh, I'm surprised at so many linguists (well, roughly two so far)
> rejecting "incent." C'mon, Bethany and Mark, are you sure you're not
> rationalizing (linguistifying? Or should I say "linguing"?) the secret
> prescriptivist impulses we probably all harbor?

Well, all I can tell you is that I do not perceive that to be the case.
And I try to stay on close terms with the Miss Fidditch that lives within
me.

I don't even know whether we incent persons or things or processes. Do
you? I. e., which of the ff Ss are grammatical?